Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Mary Ann Fletcher was born about 1843 in Oxfordshire, England.
She had a son in 1864 and later that year she married Frederick Gough, a farm labourer.
They had four children, one who died in infancy, before the family emigrated to Otago in 1874 on the Peter Denny.
They settled in Dunedin and had a further eight children, one who also died in infancy.
When Mary signed the suffrage petition the family were living in Argyle St, Maryhill, Mornington.
Mary died at her home on 7 February 1908 and Frederick re-married later that year.
He died in 1922 – they are both buried in the Southern Cemetery.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz